Alistaire Rankin at the Pro Video Coalition has a review of the new features of the Foundry’s Nuke 7.
Damn I wish I could a copy of NUKE and learn it, but it is just way too far out of my price range! I had previously learned Shake when Apple dropped the price to $400, and really fell for Node based compositing, but gave up on it ages ago, but would love to take NUKE for a spin.
This will allow different plug ins with different 3D worlds to interact. There is a video on their site. Looks pretty cool.
Now they need to figure out how to cast a shadow based on this.
Update should be out soon.
Creative Cow has a short article on the dire straights of AVID. I didn’t realize that they were hemorrhaging money that much for that long, or just how much they lost on their consumer editing programs!
While AVID does have it’s place, I do think it is a dinosaur that needs a lot of updating, and a price drop to be really competitive. I don’t think FCP X is a competitor though. A 64 Bit FCP 7 could still take back over from the whole left by it’s passing, but FCP X just has too many things wrong with it to really take over for all professional applications.
Engadget has the announcement of 3 new QUADRO cards from NVIDIA based on Kepler to fill the space over the $2500+ K5000. They have the K4000 for $1300, the K2000 for $600 and the K600 for $200. Nice. Not for gaming, but great for 3D and architectural and video work.
Dare Dreamer Magazine has an article on using compound clips instead of projects to make new sequences, since new projects take up a lot more hard drive space.
Sounds interesting, though it does just further highlight the continued issues with FCP X. Not being able to share renders between Projects (which are sequences in FXP X) seems ridiculous, and not very power user friendly.
Still just can’t see myself every trying FCP X again, not when Premiere Pro CS6 and AVID Media Composer are out there.
Engadget has the news on new Atom CPU for NAS, that would allow multiple simultaneous streams, and smart video scaling.
This is great, wish it had come out sooner. I have my iTunes library on a Synology NAS (not only backs itself up on a second drive, but allows me to stream music from anywhere or store files on the NAS to access from anywhere), but it doesn’t like 2 accesses at the same time. If I am listening to music and access the NAS via the finder, I will lock my finder up for a while, it slows down so much, so a speedier CPU that would allow multiple connections would be awesome!!!
MacTech has news on the releases of the new Magna ExpressBox 1T Thunderbolt PCI Adapter to add PCI cards to your thunderbolt equipped mac.
A very cool idea, though I would still rather have a tower with PCI Slots built in, but this is great for a portable solution, though $500 is a bit pricy.
Appleinsider has heard rumors of Apple working on 2 GB SSD’s for the new MacPro with a standard SATA connector.
And while that would be awesome, at least for a boot drive, the cost would be so prohibitively expensive that it would be useless! And the fusion drives scare me as if one drive goes you lose everything (though you should be backing it up anyway). Still the most hopefully thing out of this is that maybe we will be getting a new MacPro soon. I SURE HOP SO!!!
Premiere Beat has a great little article on using Adobe Prelude to ingest your media for editing in Premiere Pro.
Engadget is saying that Wacom is hinting at a mobile tablet in the near future. If this could be a combination Cintiq for your home computer, this could be amazing. I have always wanted a Cintiq, but could never afford one, though I have used Wacom tablets for years and years. Even a table that can use a pen would be so much better for art than using your finger, and a full Wacom would be even better.
I hope this happens and at a fairly reasonable price, as this could be huge!